[169217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: random dns queries with random sources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue Feb 18 23:09:36 2014
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 23:00:03 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>,
North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
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Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
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>> What is the purpose of this?
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> Resource-exhaustion attack against the recursive DNS?
>
On anything that is going to stay open, not even close.
